Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit (real opening)

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This is the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit, a chess opening that anyone should try. It may work better for beginners, but it's definitely good chess theory to know for everybody. It can be played in the Tennison Gambit. Subscribe for more chess videos.

[chesspagereal]

Ever since Bosnian Ape Society called this trap the ICBM Gambit, many people have been doing that. But few know that it's a variation of the Tennison Gambit or even a real opening. Many people have been making videos explaining it, but I found them kind of boring so I made my own version. This is just my own version and explanation of the gambit. Hope you enjoyed it.

[omeiga]

i like how you had to specify that this is an actual real gambit that can be viably used

[darthamster]

This video inspired me to start playing chess online. After using this opening every game my stats are:
Games: 945
Won: 453
Lost: 425
Successfully launched ICBMs: 3

[Pardeon]

The easier method is the hack-and-control-a-real-
life-ICBM-to-your-
opponent's-current-
location Gambit.

By sacrificing your location to the government, you are essentially putting yourself in a winning position while having a massive advantage in the middle and endgame.

[Alxndros]

I've literally never played chess but this was a blast to watch lol

[talizorahnarrayya]

I accidentally used this opening back in High school. The other dude was somewhat good at chess and I almost only knew how each piece moved. The look on his face was amazing. Of course it was pure luck but it was funny.

Edit: for the people that don't believe me. I don't need you to believe me, I was just sharing an anecdote.

[GooseOfBelarus]

this man teaches more useful openings than anyone ever could

[DarkAngelEU]

I used to do this opening when I first learned chess. It's an amateur move that can be easily unarmed. That being said, it can surprise pro's because it is exactly an amateur move and they might expect you're trying to set them on the wrong foot, or have completely forgotten about this simple yet brilliant opening.

[FA-Z-GAMER]

Its hard to play because you NEED the opponent to play in some specific way to play the gambit, but, since today, I can proudly say that I've finally played the gambit, and it was very awesome. It was a bit weird variation because the opponent played e5 early, and they deffended the missile with the knight, but, at the end, I did easily won with the queen and a knight.
Highly recommended if possible to play, it's very satisfactory.

[IggyBoi]

Never have I been so pumped for a Chess opening

[badpiggies]

The best part is that unlike fried liver and scholar’s mate, if you remember all the lines this can actually work against non-beginners as there is no hope chess required. You have to be asking for scholar’s and fried liver, but in this black’s fate is basically sealed if they play d5 and keep playing book moves after that and white knows this game.

[kRuBe.]

I was dissapointed when i didn't get to use my intercontinental ballistic missile and instead had to play chess

[lodielieb]

Okay I played it a lot against a few bots and they all used the queen to defend the pawn and not their knight

[benson]

I've been playing with this opening since watching this, snd enen if my opponent doesn't fall into the ICBM the position is so destabilizing to black I've been getting a pretty decisive positional advantage. Love it!

[sebu]

I'd like to add that this can be played vs both caro-kann and french defense. All the scandi players will know about this sooner or later, and playing it out of the reti opening is very obvious. To the contrary, french and caro players aren't as familiar with this, so it's possible to pull it off. I guess it's doable vs the sicilian as well, but more difficult, as it requires the sicilian player to play d5, which they might not do

[drenz]

Another trap one should be aware of is Nf6 after the ICBM attack. You should not take the free pawn on c7, for black will play e5 and no matter what, black will play either Nd5 or Ne8 trapping your queen

[inky]

Also worth mentioning that the computers consider the bishop and knight sacrifice as BRILLIANT moves, so if you pull it off, you'll have 2 easy Brilliant moves under your belt

[Spunglebub]

This is the best name for an opening I have ever heard

[Jolis_Parsec]

My brother accidentally managed to do this to me when we were both still learning the rules of chess from our dad. I was completely flabbergasted to say the least since neither him nor me were expecting that. 🤣

[DiegoGonzalez-xlus]

I really like your content, I get very excited with new videos. I laughed a lot when I discovered your video of the Halloween gambit in spring. Cheers from Spain